Jacob Shimoni

Jacob Shimoni (1915-) was the Israeli minister to Burma and a Mossad agent. He was born in Berlin in 1915, and he was a veteran of the Foreign Service and wrote several books before becoming an intelligence agent. In 1959, he sent Mossad agent Dan Peleg to discover the Syrian government's plans to attack Israel in the aftermath of a mortar attack on the Ein Gev kibbutz from the Golan Heights.